
“The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.”
Source: The Judges
“The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.”
Source: The Judges
“Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.”
F 53
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Quoted in: The Artist, Vol. 93 (1978) p. 5.
1970s
Source: 1850s, Attack upon Christendom (1855), p. 121
“The one thing that is more dangerous than true ignorance is the illusion of understanding.”
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 57, “Becoming Philosophical” (p. 226)
Introduction, in Hirst (1909), pp. 287–288
The National System of Political Economy (1841)